Bev's VISITING TEACHING IDEAS

    Each month you can bring something a little festive to the sisters on your route.
    JANUARY:
  • Give your sisters a new calendar - the small ones that fit in your purse are nice.
  • Make a resolutions/goals for the year booklet (make it yourself out of paper, add a cute cover and staple it together.)
  • Tie a ribbon around a pretty, scented candle, matches and a note that says: "This year - Let your light shine before men."
FEBRUARY:
  • Red carnations tied with ribbon
  • Cloth heart filled with candies
  • A heart pin cushion
  • A pretty hanky filled with Hershey's Kisses TM
MARCH:
  • Shamrock Cookies are tasty
  • Cut a 5" circle of green material and place several broken cinnamon sticks in the middle, tie with yarn or ribbon
  • Bring over a basket of "Irish" potatoes or a bowl of potato salad with some green parsley for garnish.
APRIL:
  • Give her an April Fool's gift (something out of season-for fun!)
  • Easter Basket filled with goodies
  • Rolls for her easter Dinner
  • A packet of seeds-- flowers or vegetables - staple a piece of paper on it with this:
"as we plant and nourish seeds of faith, our testimony and happiness will be strengthened exceedingly..." Alma 32

MAY:
  • Basket of fruit or flowers from your garden
  • Stationery and a pretty pen to write letters to their mother or friends
  • If she crochets, give her a skein of baby yarn, a baby pattern and a hook.  LDS Humanitarian Aid, needs many small items.
JUNE:
  • Yellow cake mix, strawberries and whipping cream to make their own shortcake
  • Family Group Sheet with a heart in the middle that says: "The hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers."
JULY:
  • Cake decorated like a flag
  • A plastic beach bag with goodies - beach flip-flops, magazine, sunscreen
  • LipGloss - give your sisters a tube of lipbalm or gloss when the lesson is on kindness, and attach this poem.

    I have this tube of lip balm,
    I'll put some on each day.
    I do it to remind me
    To choose the words I say.

    I'll try to speak with kindness
    To everyone I meet.
    I'll try to spread some happiness
    To those that I may greet.

    This     tube of lip balm reminds me
    Of the values I hold dear,
    The colors are so cheerful
    And the message is so clear.

    If I want to live the gospel
    I'll choose each word I say.
    I'll speak in just the kindest words
    And I won't forget to pray!
AUGUST:
  • Homemade Berry Jam and a note that says:  "When you are in a Jam--call your Visiting Teachers.  (Your names and phone numbers)"
  • Pitcher full of whole lemons and recipe for pink lemonade--
    •   1 (6 oz can) frozen lemonade
    •   3 cans water
    •   2 cups cranberry juice
      Mix well
SEPTEMBER:
  • Corn husk doll and dresses from fabric scraps
  • Share a bottle of fruit or vegetables you are canning
  • Magazine to read now that the kids are in school
OCTOBER:
  • Tootsie Pop TM Ghost (place a white kleenex over pop, and tie with a white ribbon.  Draw ghostly eyes using black marker)
  • Pumpkin Bread
  • Pumpkin shaped cookies in a rubber-stamped lunch bag
NOVEMBER:
  • Crispie Treats decorated with pumpkin candy
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Box of Christmas cards and some stamps
  • A list of all the things that make you thankful you know this sister and how she has touched your life
DECEMBER:
  • Homemade Christmas ornament
  • Christmas stickers
  • Offer to baby-sit so she can go Christmas shopping or off for an hour alone!
  • Bev's Hot Cocoa Mix and recipe to share:
    •   8 cups powdered milk
    •   1 lb instant chocolate mix
    •   1 cup sugar
    •   8 oz Cremora TM
    •   dash salt
    Mix together well.  Use 1/4 cup to 1 cup hot water.  Give in quart jars with the recipe attached to the front.

More ideas for VT from Cookerwanab

* Take your inactive sister a Relief Society manual.
* If you have an ill or elderly sister to visit, tape record the the lesson for her to hear.
* Help a mother have a birthday party for her child.
* Invite your sisters and their families to your home for dinner and/or Fhe.
* Offer to babysit so the mother can do errands or just have some alone time.
* Share some of your best recipes.
* Go to the temple together.
* Give her a casserole she can keep in the freezer for a hectic day.Be
* sure to include cooking directions.
* Take your sisters out to lunch, one at a time or all together.


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